NYU, Tisch School of the Arts
For the seventh consecutive year, the Festival invites the participation of a film school.
For over 45 years, the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts has provided an intensive and professional education in filmmaking, drawing on the vast resources of New York City and New York University. Since 2005, Chair John Tintori and a faculty of celebrated working professionals have led the Graduate Film Program and guided its students in cinematic storytelling.
The faculty’s commitment is to the students’ development of their individual filmmaking voices and visions. Rooted in narrative storytelling, the Graduate Film Program trains students in short and feature-length story development and production, documentary filmmaking, television writing and production, commercial directing, as well as advanced, intensive courses in cinematography, producing, and editing.
Graduate students work intensively with senior faculty members in small, highly focused departments as colleagues-in-training, and can pursue an MFA or an MBA/MFA joint degree in collaboration with the NYU Stern School of Business. Students are encouraged to learn by doing and study with such faculty as Spike Lee, Kasi Lemmons, Todd Solondz, Lodge Kerrigan, Ira Sachs.
Both within Tisch and after graduation, students become part of large and influential professional network that spans the globe. Distinguished alumni of the Kanbar Institute include Joel Coen, Jim Jarmusch, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, Nancy Savoca, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, and Lucy Walker among many up-and-coming filmmakers such as Dee Rees, Shaka King, Luke Matheny, and Desiree Akhavan.
Mobile Homes de Vladimir de Fontenay (Etats-Unis, France – 2012)
The Graduate Film Program supports the Cinema Research Institute and has established the Purple List – a script-vetting program based on the Hollywood Blacklist. Both initiatives serve the existing student and alumni communities, while furthering conversations and opportunities for contemporary and aspiring independent filmmakers.
